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Re: draft-ietf-pkix-rfc3280bis-11.txt


At 9:53 AM +0100 2/6/08, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:

Paul Hoffman wrote:

At 2:19 PM -0500 2/5/08, David A. Cooper wrote:
4) Text was added to section 4.2.1.4 to provide further guidance on the use of the explicitText string from the userNotice policy qualifier: 

  The explicitText string SHOULD NOT include any control
  characters (e.g., U+0000 to U+001F and U+007F to U+009F).  When
  the UTF8String encoding is used, all character sequences SHOULD be
  normalized according to Unicode normalization form C (NFC) [NFC].
If we want all text to be normalized, we want it for both UTFString *and* BMPString. 
Would it not be better to simply deprecate BMPString ?
No. Many people are just fine with BMPString, and it's pretty late in the process to make such a large change. 


(as well as UniversalString if referenced somewhere)


Ditto.
It is quite reasonable to try to make string changes in the next round, but there is likely to be a lot of disagreement on what to take out and why. 

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium